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1. Action Aid Food Rights Campaign: TRIPs review [ Report dead link ]

Resources related to Action Aid's campaign on genetic resources with links to papers on IPRs, TRIPs, GM crops, agricultural trade and corporate control.

http://www.actionaid.org.uk/100225/trips.html

2. Alternative Mechanisms to Enhance Corporate Monopoly and BioSerfdom in the 21st Century [ Report dead link ]

ETC Group Communiqué on the uncertainties surrounding intellectual property rights, which, being increasingly unacceptable to industry, is why new tools for monopoly control of biological and other resources are being developed.

http://www.etcgroup.org/upload/publication/230/01/newenclosuresfinal.pdf

3. Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR) [ Report dead link ]

UK Government IPR Commission's website containing background, papers, conference reports and UK government response. Commission's Report: "Integrating IPRs and Development Policy" available in many languages.

http://www.iprcommission.org/

4. Comparing sui generis rights systems [ Report dead link ]

Theme issue of Biotechnology and Development Monitor journal on Plant Variety Rights and sui generis systems. Journal covers all aspects of IPRs, seed systems and biotechnology. Links through home page of journal.

http://www.biotech-monitor.nl/index36.htm

5. Intellectual Property and Community Rights in African Agriculture: Implications for Small Farmers [ Report dead link ]

Authoritative introduction to these issues by Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN) concerning African countries that are being forced to choose between two conflicting paths for agricultural research and development (R&D): one rooted in the knowledge and practices of its farmers and agricultural biodiversity or one dependent on the products of Northern corporations.

http://www.grain.org/briefings/?id=3

6. International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture [ Report dead link ]

UKabc portal on the IT PGRFA (International Seed Treaty) that governs the access, use, conservation and development of the genetic resources of food security crop and forage species. Treaty outlaws IPRs on selected PGRFA. Links to all official FAO, media and CSO resources on the Treaty.

http://www.ukabc.org/iu2.htm

7. People, Plants and Patents [ Report dead link ]

Full text of 1994 book on the impact of intellectual property on trade, agricultural biodiversity, and rural society by The Crucible Group, hosted by IDRC.

http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-9317-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

8. Porto Alegre Treaty to Share the Global Commons [ Report dead link ]

Full text and background of proposed treaty designed to ensure that governments and Indigenous Peoples, who are the caretakers of their part of the genetic commons, establish the appropriate statutory mechanisms needed to ensure both sovereignty and open access to the world's genetic diversity.

http://www.ukabc.org/genetic_commons_treaty.htm

9. Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) [ Report dead link ]

Site contains Trade and Development pages which include all QUNO publications on Trade and Intellectual Property, including aspects related to: Food, Sui Generis systems, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Traditional Knowledge

http://www.geneva.quno.info/

10. Seeding Solutions [ Report dead link ]

Full text and publication details of Volume 1 (ownership, conservation and exchange of genetic resources) and Volume 2 (legal mechanisms) which update People, Plants and Patents. Published by The Crucible Group/IDRC in 2000.

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-9424-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

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